A reputed gang member suspected of gunning down a rival in a Lawndale hair salon last year was arrested this week after he was implicated in a triple shooting.
Prosecutors said a key piece of evidence allegedly linking Ishmael Simpson to the slaying were his “Yeezy-style shoes” an apparent reference to rapper and designer Kanye West’s footwear brand.
Prosecutors said a key piece of evidence allegedly linking Ishmael Simpson to the slaying were his “Yeezy-style shoes” an apparent reference to rapper and designer Kanye West’s footwear brand.
Too Young to Die: The Senseless Murder of a Chicago Seven Year Old | Opinion Lee Habeeb
, Newsweek Columnist, Vice President of Content at Salem Media Group and host of Our American Stories On 4/29/21 at 5:30 AM EDT
Her name was Jaslyn Adams. She was a beautiful young African-American girl, all of seven years old. Late in the afternoon of April 18, she was with her father Jontae at a McDonald s drive-thru in the West Side of Chicago, looking forward to sharing a Happy Meal. But this daddy-daughter trip to McDonald s didn t have a happy ending.
As the first grader and her father pulled up in their Infiniti sedan to the menu board, a silver Audi pulled up behind them. Two African-American men stepped out of the vehicle. They pulled out weapons, and began to fire at the back of Jaslyn and her father s car. A total of 45 shots were fired. Six struck the innocent seven-year-old, who was rushed to nearby Stroger Hospital by a responding police officer. She was pro
2 Killed Including 7-Year-Old Girl, 17 Wounded In Weekend Shootings Across Chicago
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CHICAGO (CBS) At least 19 people have been shot, two of them fatally, so far this weekend in Chicago.
Among those killed was a 7-year-old girl who was shot in a vehicle in Lawndale.
The weekend’s gun violence began shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, when an 18-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman inside a business in the 3600 block of West 16th Street in the Lawndale neighborhood, and a person walked in and shot both of them.
The 18-year-old man, identified as Jawon Ward, was shot in the chest and face, and was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. The 44-year-old woman was shot in the left shoulder and was taken to Mount Sinai in good condition.